Covesa Diagnostic Log and Trace (DLT)

By Michael Methner of ADIT
Time: 13:00 Room: S6

Abstract

DLT is the central logging system in In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) devices. Started out by BMW in 2011 as part of the GenIVI consortium, DLT has grown to the de-facto standard of logging used by many automotive manufacturers.
In this talk, Michael Methner will present how DLT enables logging use cases like log storage, multi OS logging, collection of log messages from native logging systems and user-friendly representation of logs. This all serves the goal to enable developers to understand system behavior in complex systems.
In the second part of the talk, Michael will present how ADIT interacts with the Open Source community of DLT. While open source maintenance takes some work time, it has many benefits like community contributions, peer reviews and security analysis for free.

Biography

Michael Methner leads the Open Source middleware team @ ADIT, a joint venture between Denso and Bosch originally founded for In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) platform development. He is Diagnostic Log and Trace (DLT) maintainer since 2022 and Linux enthusiast since 2001. His professional interests are embedded software development, and he has worked with open source components like GStreamer, systemd, D-Bus, Eclipse Mosquitto and many more.